As a freelance specialist developer I have a wealth of skills and experience in dealing with both commercial and non for profit organisations, on projects ranging from simple site builds, reverse engineering, through to complex applications, e-commerce and large scale content driven web sites and social networks.
My approach is to work directly with the client and to understand the business model behind the project. The majority of development agencies employ a more detached approach to client management, and rather than expect or assume that the client understands technical complexities my approach is more consultative and through mutual understanding, a more effective solution is thereby achieved.
From the start of my career I have always challenged myself to learn the latest trends and skills for the web, to develop the highest quality of bespoke solutions for my clients. Over my years in the industry I have worked with a various number of different technologies but as technologies improves so do my skills. Currently i am most comfortable with these technologies listed on the left, using them together to develop web applications.
Currently the lastest improvemts to the html and css and the 'buzz' of the web. Html & Css 3 allow for developers to create robust and interactibe websites that work on all mobile devices.
these two techologies work hand in hand to develop dynamic websites with sever side controls. Allow users to minpulate data from their database
Yii is a high performance php framework for developing large user based web applications. Yii's integration of the MVC model, caching methods, role based access and testing allows for large web applications to be created securely and professionally.
Wordpress has asserted itself as the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world with its application seen on small websites right up to being the power behind all the major news networks like CNN, Rueters and Yahoo's corporate blog.
IOS is the operating system for apple devices such as iphones and ipads. It is incresently important to take advantage of these new techologes, therefore using tools such as Xcode to create interactive applications allowing clinet to embrace the new mobile web.
When used in the context of web development, an API is typically a defined set of HTTP request messages, along with a definition of the structure of response messages tyically displayed in XML or JSON format. API and Oauth can be used to pull out data from other sources to be be displayed and structured on other web devices.
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way JavaScript is written, making easier to create complex and interactive websites.